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Tim Cappalli
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🔐 #passkeys 🪪 verifiable digital credentials
🏒 bruins ⚾️ sox 🚆 urban mobility 🍉

cars ruin cities
Pinned
"They hate Boston because we are proof of the America they say is impossible." @mayorwu.boston.gov ✊🏻
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"Apps targeting API level 37 can no longer opt out of orientation and resizability restrictions. They must now properly span the full width of large-screen devices like tablets and foldables."

#Android17
February 14, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Android 17 has VCC support 👀
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
February 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
we're just so fucked on so many levels.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:56 PM
and the sky is blue
Reporter: Trump argued that other countries are going to pay the brunt of the tariffs, but recent research finds the exact opposite. The cost of Trump's tariffs per household was $1,000 last year, and they're seeing an increase this year to $1,300.
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 PM
"officers used racial slurs and sorted everyone in the crowd into groups 'based on perceived immigration status,' the lawsuit says."

aka by race. Nazi Germany.
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Watching Chief Bitch Bondi get destroyed by Congress for hours is the most satisfying thing I've watched in a long time.
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
Pam Bondi: ‘What Is The DOJ Hiding?’ https://theonion.com/pam-bondi-what-is-the-doj-hiding/
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
February 11, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
Across the industry, workers describe a “fear-based culture” and pressure to “fall in line.”
buff.ly
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 AM
thundersnow!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
NEW: Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin tells Axios in an interview.

www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
www.axios.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
Construction Is Underway On @mbta.com Back Bay Station Makeover - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/09/c...
Construction Is Underway On Back Bay Station Makeover - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Developers are promising to deliver “a first-class transit hub.”
mass.streetsblog.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
February 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Paris is pretty
February 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
The 10 companies to boycott during February:
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Amazon
- Google
- Meta
- OpenAI
- Netflix
- Paramount+
- Uber
- X
Why this ICE boycott wants consumers to resist Amazon and Google
Could consumers give up Netflix and YouTube for a month? That's what a strike protesting Trump’s immigration enforcement is asking people to do.
www.usatoday.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
To weaken Trump, stop buying iPhones.
Scott Galloway: To Weaken Trump, Stop Buying iPhones
Pivot hosts Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss why a national economic strike could be so effective.
nymag.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Wise 🤝 #passkeys
February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
📍Paris 🇫🇷
February 4, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
Current and former faculty members of Northeastern University's School of Journalism condemn the unconstitutional arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Our statement is up at the @huntnewsnu.bsky.social. huntnewsnu.com/91095/editor...
Op-ed: Journalism faculty members condemn the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - The Huntington News
As current and former faculty members of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, we condemn the unconstitutional arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. We are instructo...
huntnewsnu.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
🚆 Deutsche Bahn 🤝 #passkeys
February 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Reposted by Tim Cappalli
One of my open source colleagues presented on our current progress with passkeys on Linux!

https://www.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/838A8N-credentials-for-linux-bringing-passkeys-to-linux/

Thanks for presenting, Alfie! I'm glad to be working with you. :)
FOSDEM 2026 - Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux desktop
www.fosdem.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
CBP just took my picture with a cell phone at the gate at Logan, after biometric boarding and passport verification.

They didn't do it to anyone else in front of me.

What the actual fuck.
February 2, 2026 at 10:51 PM